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Version: 12.x

Priest Class Tree Talents

This page contains details on Priest Class Tree talents and how they work.

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Row 1​

Improved Flash Heal​

Improved Flash Heal aka. Imp FH

  • Default talent, can't talent out of it.

Angelic Feather​

Angelic Feather aka Feather

  • Prefers the casting priest if cast underneath them, meaning if a group is stacked together then feather should still speed-boost the casting priest as a priority and not pick a target at random.
  • Can’t be used with macro conditions like @target, @focus, @mouseover and @targettarget.
  • Can be used with both the @cursor and @player macro conditions.
  • @player is most commonly used as it immediately applies the speed boost to the casting priest.
#showtooltip 
/cast [@player] Angelic Feather 
/stopspelltarget
  • @cursor can be used to directly cast it under the mouse cursor.
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Angelic Feather 
/stopspelltarget
  • Body and Soul and Feather do not stack.
  • Body and Soul and Angelic Feather are mutually exclusive. When you attempt to apply both to a target, the movement buff with the longest remaining duration is applied and the shorter duration is removed (or not applied if it was already shorter)

Holy Fire​

Holy Fire aka HF

  • Replaces Mind Blast at level 12.
  • HFs ticks scale with Haste like a normal DoT.

Row 2​

Holy Nova​

Holy Nova aka Nova, HN

  • Holy Nova scales linearly for up to 5 targets. For 6 or more, it then scales using the "1/sqrt" method.
    • The formula is: (1 / Sqrt(Max(5, number_of_targets))) / (1 / Sqrt(5))

Dispel Magic​

Dispel Magic aka Purge, Dispel

  • Commonly known as Purge. Often referred to as "Dispel" when referring to an enemy target.
  • Will cost mana regardless of actually removing an effect from the target or not.
  • Does not have a cooldown but only removes 1 Magic effect per cast on an enemy target.

Spiritual Guidance​

Spiritual Guidance

Psychic Scream​

Psychic Scream

  • Typically does not work on undead enemies, though some exceptions do occur.

Row 3​

Lightburst​

Lightburst

Leap of Faith​

Leap of Faith aka. Grip, Life Grip

  • Leap acts as described, "Leaping" the target through the air to your location. This means they will still hit some effects such as beams/walls when gripped through them, and avoid most effects that are on the ground such as fire or poison. Blizzard are super inconsistent with this though so be sure to test it out on a specific mechanic before relying on it as a life saver.
  • Leap will interrupt your targets current casts if they can't be cast while moving.
  • Leap can not be cast on a target that is not in your party or raid.
  • Evoker's Blessing of the Bronze which affects a movement enhancing ability for all classes, affects Leap of Faith.
  • Evoker's Time Spiral which affects a movement enhancing ability for all classes, affects Leap of Faith.

Improved Purify​

Improved Purify aka. Disease Dispel

  • Adds the ability to remove diseases to Purify.

Power Infusion​

Power Infusion aka. PI

  • Power Infusion does not trigger the GCD when cast.

Painful Invocation​

Painful Invocation

Sheer Terror​

Sheer Terror

  • Nothing of note yet.

Petrifying Scream​

Petrifying Scream

  • Nothing of note yet.

Row 4​

Surge of Light​

Surge of Light aka SoL, Surge

  • The buff it generates Surge of Light lasts for 20-seconds and can stack 2 times.
  • Any successive procs while at 2 stacks will refresh the timer to 20-seconds.
  • SoL proc does not make Flash Heal cast faster, it just moves the healing portion of a Flash Heal to the start of the GCD rather than the end (The cast speed of Flash Heal is the length of the GCD).
  • Flash Heals that consume SoL can also proc it again.
  • Surge has a flat 8% chance to proc, it is not on the RPPM system and has no badluck protection.
  • Surge can be triggered by casting the following spells. Healing events don't have a chance to trigger it. For example:
    • Casting Prayer of Healing gives one chance to trigger, despite multiple direct heals.
    • Casting Halo gives one chance to trigger, despite multiple healing events.
    • Casting Holy Nova gives one chance to trigger, despite multiple healing and damage events.
CooldownsFillers
Prayer of MendingSmite
Desperate PrayerFlash Heal
Divine HymnHeal
HaloPrayer of Healing
Holy Word: SanctifyHoly Nova
Holy Word: Serenity

Body and Soul​

Body and Soul aka B&S

  • Does not stack with Angelic Feather
  • Body and Soul and Angelic Feather are mutually exclusive. When you attempt to apply both to a target, the movement buff with the longest remaining duration is applied and the shorter duration is removed (or not applied if it was already shorter).

Mass Dispel​

Mass Dispel aka. MD, Mass

  • Mass Dispel is one of the few abilities in the game that can dispel a Paladin bubble and Mage ice block.
  • Mass Dispel on friendly targets behaves similar to Purify, dispelling all magical effects on up to 5 friendly targets. This only removes magical effects though, not diseases.
  • Mass Dispel on enemy targets can hit up to 5 targets, removing 1 magical buff from each target.
  • A popular macro for Mass Dispel to prevent the flickering of the targeting reticule, is:
#showtooltip
/cast !Mass Dispel
note
  • In Patch 9.1, MD was hotfixed, as Mass Dispel was dispelling targets in a specific order based on the character's GUIDs. This mechanic paired with a weakaura was causing it to be used to predict where people had to stand for the knockback on the Remnant of Ner'zhul encounter in Sanctum of Domination.
  • This hotfix does not change how Mass Dispel functions in any meaningful way, and was done to prevent "gaming" of the dispel order functionality it previously had.

July 20, 2021: When Mass Dispel dispels multiple targets, the order of dispels is now random.

Twins of the Sun Priestess​

Twins of the Sun Priestess

  • Nothing of note yet.

Strength of Soul​

Strength of Soul

Mind Control​

Mind Control

  • Nothing of note yet.

Dominate Mind​

Dominate Mind

  • Nothing of note yet.

Psychic Voice​

Psychic Voice

  • Nothing of note yet.

Void Tendrils​

Void Tendrils

  • Nothing of note yet.

Row 5​

Everlasting Light​

Everlasting Light

Move with Grace​

Move with Grace

  • Nothing of note yet.

Mental Agility​

Mental Agility

  • Nothing of note yet.

Twin Disciplines​

Twin Disciplines

Dark Enlightenment​

Dark Enlightenment

False Autonomy​

False Autonomy

Shackle Undead​

Shackle Undead

  • Nothing of note yet.

Row 6​

Inspiration​

Inspiration

Binding Heals​

Binding Heals

  • Procs Mastery
  • Flat percentage heal based on the spell that triggers it
  • Does not scale with vers, can't crit.
  • The heal effect is Binding Heal

Shadow Word: Death​

Shadow Word: Death aka. SW:D, Death

  • The backlash damage is reduced by damage reduction effects.

Sanguine Teachings​

Sanguine Teachings

  • Stacks additively with existing leech contributions.

Row 7​

Desperate Prayer​

Desperate Prayer

Twist of Fate​

Twist of Fate

Tithe Evasion​

Tithe Evasion

  • Nothing of note yet.

Fade​

Fade

  • Fade does not trigger the GCD and can be activated between casts
  • Fade reduces your threat to below 0 when cast, but does not remove you from the threat table
  • Fade reduces the distances enemies will attack you by around 7-8 yards.

Row 8​

Angel's Mercy​

Angel's Mercy aka Mercy

  • Nothing of note yet.

Protective Light​

Protective Light

Mindpierce​

Mindpierce

Spectral Illusion​

Spectral Illusion

Improved Fade​

Improved Fade

  • Works as expected, nothing of note yet.

Row 9​

Light's Inspiration​

Light's Inspiration

Unwavering Will​

Unwavering Will

  • Cast time reduction is multiplicative, e.g. cast_time * haste_multi * (1-0.05).

Spell Warding​

Spell Warding

  • Nothing of note yet.

Phantasm​

Phantasm

  • Nothing of note yet.

Row 10​

Angelic Bulwark​

Angelic Bulwark

Benevolence​

Benevolence

  • Works off a whitelist, and does not increase all healing done.
    • All casted spells and procs from the talent tree are included at time of writing.
    • This mostly affects external sources of healing such as trinkets and enchants.

Focused Power​

Focused Power

Phantom Reach​

Phantom Reach

Translucent Image​

Translucent Image

  • Nothing of note yet.